Wait A Minute

Just transferring some files to the new MuNu... At 1.4 megabytes per second.

I thought it was on a 10 megabit link... Apparently not.

No limits! No waiting! Another couple of days and we'll be set to go.

A sad story

Read this letter:

Bush cost me my job, my kids and my houses

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor. This foreign labor worked for low pay under very bad conditions.

They worked very long shifts, and many even died on the job.

This competition could hardly be called "fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years.

Not a single government program was there to help me.

How can Bush call himself "compassionate?" Far worse, I lost two of my sons in Bush's evil war in Iraq. They gave their lives for their country, and for what? So that Bush's oil buddies can get rich. My pain of losing my sons is indescribable.

While it is trivial next to the loss of my sons, I regret to say that I also lost my home. I simply have nothing left. How can Bush call himself a Christian when he neglects people like me? I am a senior citizen with various medical problems. I'm not in a position where I can begin a new career. I was reduced to the point where I had to live in a hole in a ground, all because of President Bush.

And when the authorities found me there, did they have any compassion for my misfortune and ailments? No, I was arrested. Mr. Bush, I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a compassionate man! I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a Christian. If I had any money left, I would donate it to the Democrat Party.

If Al Gore had been elected in 2000 I would still have a job, a home, and most importantly, my dear sons!

Regards,

Saddam Hussein

Trying Things Out

I moved my collection of anime video clips over to the new server. Advantages: More bandwidth available, and it keeps track of it for me.

You can download some if you feel like it. Though you may also need a codec pack to play them... I should put that up there too.

Question: Why the hell have all my cursor keys, page up, page down and so on suddenly stopped working but all the other keys work fine? This fancy cordless keyboard sucks.

Why People Use Perl

I don't like Perl (the programming language that Movable Type is written in) very much, but there's a reason why so many people use it: There are lots and lots and lots of very useful software modules available for it.

CPanel allows you to list all the Perl modules you have installed on your server. So I did:

Installed Perl Modules

AnyDBM_File	Apache::SOAP
Apache::XMLRPC::Lite	Archive::Tar
Archive::Tar::Constant	Archive::Tar::File
Archive::Zip	Archive::Zip::BufferedFileHandle
Archive::Zip::MemberRead	Archive::Zip::MockFileHandle
Attribute::Handlers	attributes
attrs	AutoLoader
AutoSplit	autouse
B	B::Asmdata
B::Assembler	B::Bblock
B::Bytecode	B::CC
B::Concise	B::C::Section
B::Debug	B::Deparse
B::Disassembler::BytecodeStream	bigint
bignum	blib
B::Lint	B::Showlex
B::Stackobj	B::Stash
B::Terse	Bundle::DBD::mysql
Bundle::DBI	Bundle::LWP
Bundle::Net::LDAP	Bundle::PlRPC
Business::OnlinePayment	Business::OnlinePayment::AuthorizeNet
Business::UPS	B::Xref
ByteLoader	bytes
Carp	CGI::Cookie
CGI::Fast	CGI::Push
CGI::Util	Class::Struct
Compress::Zlib	Config
constant	Convert::ASN1
Convert::ASN1::parser	Convert::BER
CPAN	CPAN::Mirrored::By
Crypt::Blowfish	Crypt::Blowfish_PP
Crypt::CBC	Crypt::DES
Crypt::SSLeay	Crypt::SSLeay::Conn
Crypt::SSLeay::CTX	Crypt::SSLeay::Err
Crypt::SSLeay::MainContext	Crypt::SSLeay::X509
Cwd	Data::Dumper
Data::Grove	Data::Grove::Parent
Data::Grove::Visitor	Data::ShowTable
Date::Manip	DBD::ExampleP
DBD::Multiplex	DBD::mysql
DBD::mysql::GetInfo	DBD::NullP
DBD::Proxy	DBD::Sponge
DBI	DBI::Const::GetInfo::ANSI
DBI::Const::GetInfo::ODBC	DBI::Const::GetInfoReturn
DBI::Const::GetInfoType	DBI::DBD
DBI::DBD::Metadata	DBI::FAQ
DBI::Format	DBI::Format::SQLMinus
DBI::Profile	DBI::ProfileData
DBI::ProfileDumper	DBI::ProfileDumper::Apache
DBI::ProxyServer	DBI::Shell
DBI::Shell::Completion	DBI::Shell::FindSqlFile
DBI::Shell::Spool	DBI::Shell::SQLMinus
DBI::Shell::Timing	Descriptions
Devel::DProf	Devel::Peek
Devel::PPPort	Devel::SelfStubber
Devel::Symdump	Devel::Symdump::Export
diagnostics	Digest
Digest::base	Digest::HMAC
Digest::HMAC_MD5	Digest::HMAC_SHA1
Digest::MD5	Digest::SHA1
DirHandle	Dumpvalue
DynaLoader	Encode
Encode::Alias	Encode::Byte
Encode::CJKConstants	Encode::CN
Encode::CN::HZ	Encode::Config
Encode::EBCDIC	Encode::Encoder
Encode::Encoding	Encode::Guess
Encode::JP	Encode::JP::JIS7
Encode::KR	Encode::KR::2022_KR
Encode::Symbol	Encode::TW
Encode::Unicode	Encode::Unicode::UTF7
encoding	English
Errno	Exporter::Heavy
ExtUtils::Command	ExtUtils::Command::MM
ExtUtils::Embed	ExtUtils::Install
ExtUtils::Installed	ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid
ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish	ExtUtils::Manifest
ExtUtils::Miniperl	ExtUtils::Mksymlists
ExtUtils::MM	ExtUtils::MM_BeOS
ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin	ExtUtils::MM_DOS
ExtUtils::MM_NW5	ExtUtils::MM_OS2
ExtUtils::MM_Unix	ExtUtils::MM_VMS
ExtUtils::MM_Win95	ExtUtils::MY
ExtUtils::Packlist	Fatal
Fcntl	FileCache
File::CheckTree	File::Compare
File::DosGlob	File::Find
File::Glob	File::Listing
File::Spec	File::Spec::Cygwin
File::Spec::Epoc	File::Spec::Mac
File::Spec::OS2	File::Spec::VMS
File::stat	File::Temp
filetest	Filter::cpp
Filter::sh	FindBin
Foomatic::DB	Foomatic::Defaults
Foomatic::PPD	Foomatic::UIElem
GD	GDBM_File
GD::Graph	GD::Graph3d
GD::Graph::area	GD::Graph::axestype
GD::Graph::axestype3d	GD::Graph::bars
GD::Graph::bars3d	GD::Graph::colour
GD::Graph::cylinder	GD::Graph::cylinder3d
GD::Graph::Data	GD::Graph::Error
GD::Graph::hbars	GD::Graph::lines
GD::Graph::lines3d	GD::Graph::linespoints
GD::Graph::mixed	GD::Graph::pie
GD::Graph::pie3d	GD::Graph::points
GD::Graph::utils	GD::Polyline
GD::Text	GD::Text::Align
GD::Text::Wrap	Getopt::Long
HTML::Clean	HTML::Entities
HTML::FillInForm	HTML::Filter
HTML::Form	HTML::HeadParser
HTML::LinkExtor	HTML::Parser
HTML::PullParser	HTML::SimpleParse
HTML::Tagset	HTML::TokeParser
HTTP::Cookies	HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft
HTTP::Cookies::Netscape	HTTP::Daemon
HTTP::Date	HTTP::Headers
HTTP::Headers::Auth	HTTP::Headers::ETag
HTTP::Headers::Util	HTTP::Message
HTTP::Negotiate	HTTP::Request
HTTP::Request::Common	HTTP::Response
HTTP::Status	I18N::Collate
I18N::Langinfo	I18N::LangTags::List
if	Image::Size
IO	IO::AtomicFile
IO::Dir	IO::File
IO::Handle	IO::InnerFile
IO::Lines	IO::Pipe
IO::Poll	IO::Pty
IO::Scalar	IO::ScalarArray
IO::Seekable	IO::Select
IO::SessionData	IO::SessionSet
IO::Socket	IO::Socket::INET
IO::Socket::UNIX	IO::Stringy
IO::Stty	IO::Tee
IO::Tty	IO::Tty::Constant
IO::Wrap	IO::WrapTie
IPC::Msg	IPC::Open3
IPC::Semaphore	IPC::SysV
less	lib
List::Util	locale
Locale::Country	Locale::Currency
Locale::Maketext	Locale::Maketext::Guts
Locale::Script	LWP
LWP::Authen::Basic	LWP::Authen::Digest
LWP::Authen::Ntlm	LWP::ConnCache
LWP::Debug	LWP::DebugFile
LWP::MediaTypes	LWP::MemberMixin
LWP::Protocol	LWP::Protocol::cpan
LWP::Protocol::data	LWP::Protocol::file
LWP::Protocol::ftp	LWP::Protocol::GHTTP
LWP::Protocol::gopher	LWP::Protocol::http
LWP::Protocol::http10	LWP::Protocol::https
LWP::Protocol::https10	LWP::Protocol::ldap
LWP::Protocol::mailto	LWP::Protocol::nntp
LWP::Protocol::nogo	LWP::RobotUA
LWP::Simple	LWP::UserAgent
Mail::Address	Mail::Cap
Mail::Field	Mail::Field::AddrList
Mail::Field::Date	Mail::Filter
Mail::Header	Mail::Internet
Mail::Mailer	Mail::Mailer::qmail
Mail::Mailer::rfc822	Mail::Mailer::sendmail
Mail::Mailer::smtp	Mail::Mailer::testfile
Mail::Send	Mail::SpamAssassin
Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator	Mail::SpamAssassin::AuditMessage
Mail::SpamAssassin::AutoWhitelist	Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore	Mail::SpamAssassin::CmdLearn
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf	Mail::SpamAssassin::ConfSourceSQL
Mail::SpamAssassin::DBBasedAddrList	Mail::SpamAssassin::Dns
Mail::SpamAssassin::EncappedMessage	Mail::SpamAssassin::EncappedMIME
Mail::SpamAssassin::EvalTests	Mail::SpamAssassin::HTML
Mail::SpamAssassin::Locales	Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker
Mail::SpamAssassin::MailingList	Mail::SpamAssassin::Message
Mail::SpamAssassin::NetSet	Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit
Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgLearner	Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus
Mail::SpamAssassin::PersistentAddrList	Mail::SpamAssassin::Received
Mail::SpamAssassin::Replier	Mail::SpamAssassin::Reporter
Mail::SpamAssassin::SHA1	Mail::SpamAssassin::TextCat
Mail::SpamAssassin::UnixLocker	Mail::SpamAssassin::Util
Mail::SpamAssassin::Win32Locker	Mail::Util
Math::BigFloat	Math::BigFloat::Trace
Math::BigInt::Scalar	Math::BigInt::Trace
Math::BigRat	Math::Complex
MD5	Memoize::AnyDBM_File
Memoize::ExpireFile	Memoize::ExpireTest
Memoize::Storable	MIME::Base64
MIME::Body	MIME::Decoder
MIME::Decoder::Base64	MIME::Decoder::Binary
MIME::Decoder::Gzip64	MIME::Decoder::NBit
MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint	MIME::Decoder::UU
MIME::Entity	MIME::Field::ContDisp
MIME::Field::ConTraEnc	MIME::Field::ContType
MIME::Field::ParamVal	MIME::Head
MIME::Lite	MIME::Parser
MIME::Parser::Filer	MIME::Parser::Reader
MIME::Parser::Results	MIME::QuotedPrint
MIME::Tools	MIME::WordDecoder
MIME::Words	MLDBM::Serializer
MLDBM::Serializer::Data::Dumper	MLDBM::Serializer::FreezeThaw
MLDBM::Serializer::Storable	MLDBM::Sync
MLDBM::Sync::SDBM_File	MyClass
Mysql	Mysql::Statement
Net::AIM	Net::AIM::Connection
Net::AIM::Event	Net::Cmd
Net::Daemon	Net::Daemon::Log
Net::Daemon::Test	Net::DNS
Net::DNS::Header	Net::DNS::Nameserver
Net::DNS::Packet	Net::DNS::Question
Net::DNS::Resolver	Net::DNS::Resolver::Base
Net::DNS::Resolver::Cygwin	Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse
Net::DNS::Resolver::UNIX	Net::DNS::Resolver::Win32
Net::DNS::RR	Net::DNS::RR::A
Net::DNS::RR::AAAA	Net::DNS::RR::AFSDB
Net::DNS::RR::CERT	Net::DNS::RR::CNAME
Net::DNS::RR::DNAME	Net::DNS::RR::EID
Net::DNS::RR::HINFO	Net::DNS::RR::ISDN
Net::DNS::RR::LOC	Net::DNS::RR::MB
Net::DNS::RR::MG	Net::DNS::RR::MINFO
Net::DNS::RR::MR	Net::DNS::RR::MX
Net::DNS::RR::NAPTR	Net::DNS::RR::NIMLOC
Net::DNS::RR::NS	Net::DNS::RR::NSAP
Net::DNS::RR::NULL	Net::DNS::RR::OPT
Net::DNS::RR::PTR	Net::DNS::RR::PX
Net::DNS::RR::RP	Net::DNS::RR::RT
Net::DNS::RR::SOA	Net::DNS::RR::SRV
Net::DNS::RR::TKEY	Net::DNS::RR::TSIG
Net::DNS::RR::TXT	Net::DNS::RR::Unknown
Net::DNS::RR::X25	Net::DNS::Select
Net::DNS::Update	Net::Domain
Net::FTP	Net::FTP::A
Net::FTP::dataconn	Net::FTP::I
Net::FTP::L	Net::HTTP
Net::HTTP::Methods	Net::HTTP::NB
Net::HTTPS	Net::LDAP
Net::LDAP::ASN	Net::LDAP::Bind
Net::LDAP::Constant	Net::LDAP::Control
Net::LDAP::Control::Paged	Net::LDAP::Control::ProxyAuth
Net::LDAP::Control::Sort	Net::LDAP::Control::SortResult
Net::LDAP::Control::VLV	Net::LDAP::Control::VLVResponse
Net::LDAP::DSML	Net::LDAP::Entry
Net::LDAP::Extension	Net::LDAP::Extension::SetPassword
Net::LDAP::Extra	Net::LDAP::Filter
Net::LDAPI	Net::LDAP::LDIF
Net::LDAP::Message	Net::LDAP::RootDSE
Net::LDAPS	Net::LDAP::Schema
Net::LDAP::Search	Net::LDAP::Util
Net::netent	Net::NNTP
Net::POP3	Net::protoent
Net::SMTP	Net::SSL
Net::SSLeay	Net::SSLeay::Handle
Net::Telnet	Net::Time
NEXT	O
OLE::Storage_Lite::PPS	Opcode
ops	overload
Parse::RecDescent	Parse::Yapp
Parse::Yapp::Driver	Parse::Yapp::Grammar
Parse::Yapp::Lalr	Parse::Yapp::Options
Parse::Yapp::Output	Parse::Yapp::Parse
PerlIO	PerlIO::encoding
PerlIO::scalar	PerlIO::via
Persistent::Base	Persistent::DataType::Base
Persistent::DataType::Char	Persistent::DataType::DateTime
Persistent::DataType::Number	Persistent::DataType::String
Persistent::DataType::VarChar	Persistent::DBI
Persistent::DBM	Persistent::File
Persistent::Memory	Pod::Checker
Pod::Functions	Pod::Html
Pod::InputObjects	Pod::LaTeX
Pod::Man	Pod::Parser
Pod::Perldoc::GetOptsOO	Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker
Pod::Perldoc::ToMan	Pod::Perldoc::ToPod
Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf	Pod::Perldoc::ToTk
Pod::Perldoc::ToXml	Pod::Plainer
Pod::PlainText	Pod::Select
Pod::Text::Color	Pod::Text::Termcap
Pod::Usage	POSIX
re	readline
RPC::PlClient	RPC::PlServer
RPC::PlServer::Comm	RPC::PlServer::Test
Safe	Safe::Hole
SDBM_File	Search::Dict
SelectSaver	Shell
SOAP::Lite	SOAP::Test
SOAP::Transport::FTP	SOAP::Transport::HTTP
SOAP::Transport::IO	SOAP::Transport::JABBER
SOAP::Transport::LOCAL	SOAP::Transport::MAILTO
SOAP::Transport::MQ	SOAP::Transport::POP3
SOAP::Transport::TCP	Socket
sort	Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Dump
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtDefault	Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan2	Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtUnicode
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser::Workbook	Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Utility
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook	Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::BIFFwriter	Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Big
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Format	Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Formula
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::OLEwriter	Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Utility
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Workbook	Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::WorkbookBig
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Worksheet	SQL::Eval
SQL::Statement	SQL::Statement::Hash
Storable	strict
Symbol	Sys::Hostname
Sys::Syslog	Term::ANSIColor
Term::Complete	Term::ReadKey
Term::ReadLine::Perl	Term::ReadLine::Stub
Test	Test::Harness
Test::Harness::Assert	Test::Harness::Iterator
Test::More	Text::Abbrev
Text::CSV_XS	Text::ParseWords
Text::Reform	Text::Soundex
Text::Tabs	Thread
Thread::Queue	threads
Thread::Semaphore	threads::shared
Tie::Array	Tie::File
Tie::Hash	Tie::IxHash
Tie::Memoize	Tie::Scalar
Tie::ShadowHash	Tie::Watch
Time::gmtime	Time::HiRes
Time::localtime	Time::tm
Tree::MultiNode	UDDI::Lite
Unicode::Normalize	Unicode::UCD
URI	URI::data
URI::Escape	URI::file
URI::file::Base	URI::file::FAT
URI::file::Mac	URI::file::OS2
URI::file::QNX	URI::file::Unix
URI::file::Win32	URI::_foreign
URI::ftp	URI::_generic
URI::gopher	URI::Heuristic
URI::http	URI::https
URI::ldap	URI::_ldap
URI::ldapi	URI::ldaps
URI::_login	URI::mailto
URI::mms	URI::news
URI::nntp	URI::pop
URI::_query	URI::QueryParam
URI::rlogin	URI::rsync
URI::rtsp	URI::rtspu
URI::_segment	URI::_server
URI::sip	URI::sips
URI::snews	URI::Split
URI::ssh	URI::telnet
URI::tn3270	URI::URL
URI::urn	URI::urn::isbn
URI::urn::oid	URI::_userpass
URI::WithBase	User::grent
utf8	vars
vmsish	WWW::RobotRules
WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File	XML::Checker::Parser
XML::Checker::Term	XML::DOM
XML::DOM::DOMException	XML::DOM::NamedNodeMap
XML::DOM::NodeList	XML::DOM::PerlSAX
XML::DOM::ValParser	XML::Dumper
XML::Encoding	XML::ESISParser
XML::Filter::DetectWS	XML::Filter::Reindent
XML::Filter::SAXT	XML::Handler::BuildDOM
XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter	XML::Handler::Composer
XML::Handler::PrintEvents	XML::Handler::Sample
XML::Handler::Subs	XML::Handler::XMLWriter
XML::Parser	XML::Parser::Expat
XML::Parser::Lite	XML::Parser::PerlSAX
XML::Parser::Style::Debug	XML::Parser::Style::Objects
XML::Parser::Style::Stream	XML::Parser::Style::Subs
XML::Parser::Style::Tree	XML::PatAct::ACTION
XML::PatAct::Amsterdam	XML::PatAct::MatchName
XML::PatAct::PATTERN	XML::PatAct::ToObjects
XML::Perl2SAX	XML::RegExp
XMLRPC::Lite	XMLRPC::Test
XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP	XMLRPC::Transport::POP3
XMLRPC::Transport::TCP	XML::SAX2Perl
XML::UM::SlowMapper	XML::XQL
XML::XQL::Date	XML::XQL::Debug
XML::XQL::DirXQL	XML::XQL::DOM
XML::XQL::Parser	XML::XQL::Strict
XML::XSLT	XS::APItest
XSLoader	XS::Typemap

(This is not, by the way, purely an exercise in pushing those screenshots far enough down the page that they no longer interfere with the sidebar. Not at all.)

Doodle Doodle Dee

Below you will find some screenshots of some of the neat toys available on the new server.

I'm still fiddling and tweaking and peeking and poking, but I should be ready to move things across sometime next week.

Of course, all of the MuNu blogs have to move at the same time because they're sharing the same database and stuff, so I have to make sure that it's all completely happy happy before I do that.

In the meantime, you can idly click on the little icons and menus and get annoyed when they don't do anything and you realise that it's just a GIF.

There's a lot more the the web stats page, by the way; it scrolls and scrolls and scrolls, and then there are the menus. No more relying on Sitemeter to tell you everything!

Yay!

Fantastico lets you install various cool software thingies... I'll ask people to not go too totally berserk when they get this.

I might be installing a new theme for CPanel (the first picture) which will make it look more like Fantastico. We'll see how that goes.

Oh, and everyone will have email, accessible by POP or IMAP or a choice of three different webmail packages. Yay!

Oh, and I might be converting Movable Type from Berkeley DB to PostgreSQL when we move, but I'll run some tests first. It should make it a bit faster, and will make the backups easier.

Now, any questions?

Oh yes, me, I have a question!

How much disk space and bandwidth do people need?

Um, you probably don't know, do you? Never mind, we'll work it out. Once we get to the new server, you'll actually be able to see things like that!

Update For Simon

What the heck

Make fun of one liberal, and they get pissed, and like to dissect your supposed to be tounge in cheeck blog entry with rambling comments.

Take a look

It makes no sense, I don't even know where to begin. Here is an excerpt:

The funny thing is, you can only find ONE stupid liberal every week and we can find ten stpuid conservatives on a weekly basis at DemocraticUnderground. Time for you to step it up a bit. OH, and we find the Big Name conservitives being stupid...you can only find bloggers.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to drinking latte, throwing shit and loving my freedom to do so, while laughing at people who don't realize the rest of their movement thinks they are worker drones good for being consumers, debt carriers and shoppers at the compnay store. We'll be over here EVOLVING.

Too Effective Spam Filter?

I think our spam filter is a little too protective. I have had a few mails of people who wanted to comment, but were told that they suck (our spam filter). And these are legit readers who won't leave spam.

Any way to lessen the rabid-dog protectiveness of our spam filter? Or what is it that the filter looks out for, so I can warn the good people?

Mrbl

Man there's a lot of work involved getting this server set up.

Moo!

The current server had already been running for several months before I started adding people to it, so I'd kind of forgotted.

But it will be so worth it once it's done. Much more manageable and configurable and faster and workinger.

Zoom zoom!

Hey, I wonder who I'm logged in as right now...

Hey, there's no ant on this server, dammit! I'll have to build PostgreSQL without Java support for now.

Update: Well, PostgreSQL is happy now. Eximstats needed a bit of beating about the head, but that's sorted out too. Next up, MRTG.

Help?

Ok, folks--help me out here. I got two emails "returned" to me that

#1 I never sent
#2 were returned because they had an email worm.

To wit:

***********************
A virus (WORM_MIMAIL.R) was detected in the file (data.zip/data.doc
.exe). Action taken = remove
***********-***********

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a
binary attachment.

and

***********************
The file (file.zip/file.doc
.pif) was infected with the WORM_MIMAIL.R computer virus. The following action
has been taken: remove.
***********-***********

The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary
attachment.

The attachment (file.zip) was infected with a virus and has been deleted.

Anybody know a "adam@ergon.com.au" or "bob@hpcl.co.in"? 'Cuz I sure don't...

Tim? Where's Tim?

Tim seems to have pulled a Collins. Shall we start calling the local gaols?

Or is it "jail" in Canuckland? Damn! Why can't everyone speak American?

New New Mu Nu

The new uncursed MuNu server is ready - or so the little tech support birdy told me.

As soon as Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch has stopped clogging up my bandwidth, I'll be logging in and having a little play around.

Update: I notice that the new new server has 80GB disks instead of the 60GB disks I actually paid for. Should I mention that? Since it would cost them more in time to swap them out than the disks are worth, I doubt they'd care much at this point.

Update: It's alive! Watch for updates.

Ban this IP

62.213.67.122

This nuckfut just dared to put porn spam in MuNu comments! Sound the alarums! Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!

It's one of those increasingly irritating jobs where they put in the name of a classic writer or whatever, use a quote as the body of the comment (which of course has nothing to do with the content of the post) and the url is for a porn site. I've already deleted the comment.

The Problem With That

The problem with having your granddaughter post articles from a hundred years in the future is that they will forever be at the top of your main index.

I'll have to tweak things a bit, I think. Come Tuesday.

In case no one has noticed yet...

...USURP (United Society of Unusually Responsible People) seems to be up and ready for contributions from the URPs!

The Mu.nu Oath of Allegiance

Just for fun:

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign blog server at which I have heretofore been a blogger;

that I will support and defend the cow puppies against all enemies, foreign and domestic;

that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;

that I will bear arms, legs and boobs on behalf of Munuvia if and whenever I feel like it;

that I will perform combatant service in the Special Forces of Munuvia when required by the appearance of spammers;

that I will perform work of rational importance under civilian direction when required by the appearance of trolls;

and that I pledge this allegiance freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of avoision; so help me Blog.

I'll keep working on it. Shall we have a ceremony? :D

New Mu Nu Are Poo

The techies have given up on the new Mu Nu server. Having updated and patched the kernel, changed the filesysem, tested with and without software RAID, swapped out one of the disk drives and replaced the memory, we have come to the conclusion that the server is cursed.

They are now assembling a new (non-cursed) server. If anyone would care to sacrifice a chicken, it might not go amiss.

Update: The new machine is built and the techies are curently running some tests. Hope that pork chop did the trick, Susie!

Munuvian Citizenship

I have officially given up my dual blog citizenship. The BlogSpot archives have been moved and headlines, links, and comments updated. All that is left at the original url is a one line post pointing to the mu.nu site.

Howard Dean Song

I wrote a brief song about Howard Dean, and you can hear it here. I just re-saved it as MP3. Have fun.

I think I can, I think I can...

I'm chugging along towards 100,000 hits and am having a little contest to see who can guess when I'll get there.

Come one, come all. Your first shot is free! Every player a guaranteed winner!

Well, okay. You only get one shot. And most of the players are guaranteed to lose. But it is free! And let's face it - that's all that really matters, isn't it?

IP Addresses

I just removed a seriously nasty comment from my site and-for the first time ever-banned an IP address. But is there a site I can check with his IP address to find out where he comes from? A real tosser, this guy.

Little Clicky Buttons Again

Just for Susie.

Thanks to Rob.

Consent of the Governed

I've posted something finally to Consent of the Governed.
http://consent.mu.nu/

Nice place for template

If you are lazy, like me, this site has some nice templates you can use and customize for yourself. It's called Moveable Style.

It's a Popularity Contest, After All

Also, which of the mu.nu blogs are the most popular (in terms of visits)?

And is there a better measuring device than Site Meter?

Linky Love

Technorati, while being a fine web device, seems to be missing links that I know are out there. Is there another web site that can tell me who has linked to me?

Dum de Dum

Nothing to see, move along. (Whistles innocently.)

Ambient Penumbra and Other Strangeness

Practical Irony
Snooze Button Cheese
AngelFire
Jennifer Riffic

Help!

I am under attack by the comment spam robots. I need reinforcements. Tiger blog.

Smile Again!

Add this to your appropriate template(s) to enable smilies:

<MTMacroDefine name="happy" string=":)">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="sad" string=":(">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="happy2" string=":-)">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="grin" string=":D">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="razz1" string=":p">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt=":p">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="razz2" string=":-p">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt=":-p">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="razz3" string=":P">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="razz4" string=":-P">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt=":-P">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="wink" string=";)">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)">
</MTMacroDefine>

If you don't like those smilies, there are some more to be found here.

Also, if anyone wants to set up a nice proper regexp set of smilie macros, feel free to post it here.

Minx idea

Pixy,
In a later iteration of Minx, how about an add-on or integrated RRS aggregator? (is that what it's called?) Might be a worthwhile followup project.

How about a Mu'd (Mood) Ring?

How about a code snippet, or some such to make a webring from the MuNu domains? You know what I'm talking about - with the /previous/random/next/ links?

Little Clicky Buttons

There's a demo of the Minx editor widget thingy up on the Minx development blog here.

Let me know what you think.

Referrerrerrses

I've loaded Steven Downe's referrer system onto Mu.nu.

To use it, simply cut and paste this into your template:

<script language="Javascript" src="http://blog.mu.nu/referrers.js"></script>

I did it like this:

<div class="sidetitle">
Referrers
</div>

<div class="side">
<script language="Javascript" src="http://blog.mu.nu/referrers.js"></script>
</div>

so that it shows up nicely in my sidebar.

Worried about .Nu

Umm - Pixy? What's this that I read over at Slashdot?

"The world's first free national wireless grid is no longer with us, after waves from Cyclone Heta swept over Niue's thirty metre cliffs, destroying everything. Although only one person died, the damage is so bad that there is talk of winding up the country , meaning their fortuitous ccTLD could go the way of .su. Perhaps the easiest way for Slashdotters to help Niue would be to choose a .nu domain over the dull alternatives."

Just curious. I kind of like our TLD...

New MuNu WooHoo!

I've got the new server, configured just the way I wanted.

Happy happy!

Just waiting for Fantastico to be installed, then I can start loading stuff up.

Technical help please

How do I make it so that when the pointer is over an image, instead of showing something like "Image1.jpg" it shows what I want? Like A Small Victory used to have with the little dead girl.

Lookie!

My friend Carolann drew this. I haven't fudged with it any, so this is the original as it is on paper. View image

All New Mu Nu

Mu Nu is getting a new home!

The new server is an Athlon XP 2500+ (nearly twice as fast as our existing Celeron). It has a gigabyte of memory (twice as much as the existing box), 240 gigabytes of disk (four times as much) and 500 gigabytes of bandwidth per month (five times as much).

Also, it has Fedora Linux, CPanel, and Fantastico, so lots of cool new toys for you to play with.

I should be getting the keys within 48 hours, after which it will take a week or two to get everything set up over there (depending on how busy I am with other stuff).

Company: Yay!

Too Funny - A New Smiley

I haven't posted one of these in a while, but this one is just too funny to pass up...

(the URL is http://munuviana.mu.nu/sex.gif)

Testing Minx

Just as a note:

Over the next two or three weeks I will be taking copies of all the MuNu blogs and pushing them into Minx (which is running on an entirely different server) just to see what breaks. This shouldn't affect anyone in any way, but I thought I should mention it.

I've grabbed Practical Penumbra, Jennifer's History and Stuff and Munuviana so far, and they're giving Minx a good workout.

Literary Spam

Damn. I was busy entering this entry and my computer crashed. This time it was apparently a problem with the video drivers rather than my carnivorous mousie.

Anyway, we've just been hit by a stream of literary spam:

The world is a beautiful book for those who can read it.

Posted by: Campbell Jamie at January 10, 2004 05:06 AM

An ad for weight loss pills.

Truth is a kind and gentle lie.

Posted by: Miles Eli at January 10, 2004 05:04 AM

Another one.

The superior man loves his soul, the inferior man loves his property.

Posted by: Walker David at January 10, 2004 05:04 AM

Discount drugs.

People who do not think far enough ahead inevitably have worries near at hand.

Posted by: Camuto Andera Camuto at January 10, 2004 05:04 AM

Porn site.

There are as many translators as there are humans.

Posted by: Townsend Maya at January 10, 2004 04:32 AM

Quit smoking schemes.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Posted by: schlanger karen at January 10, 2004 04:14 AM

Penis enlargement pills.

Anyway, I've added them all to the Blacklist and de-spammed everyone. My good deed for the day.

MuNuviana Skin

Well, I finally have my skinning technology worked out and am ready to start working on the skinning of the MuNuviana group site.

There's still on small little glitch that I'm working on, though. It seems that the new skins inherit some of the properties from the previous skin. These properties are mostly the borders, padding, and margins. If they are not explicitly declared in the new skin, they are not changed and show up in the current skin. I've found a work-around by just zeroing them out at the top of the div class code that is affected.

Now, the only other thing that needs to be corrected is a small strip of background color that gets left behind. If you refresh the screen or scroll down the page, the strip goes away. I'm still looking at that and working on a fix. If anyone has experienced the same thing, let me know how you overcame it.

When you select a particular skin, the javascript will set a cookie. When you return to this site, it will remember your skin preference and use that setting to display the content. I have it up at the MadLab if you want to check it out and see how it works.

If anyone wants me to use their stylesheet to skin this site, please e-mail it to me in .doc file format at MadfishWillie@hotmail.com and I'll include it in the list. Personally, I think it would be neat if everyone sent a skin, but that's your decision.

Pixy, in order to do this, I'll need access to the index file and to be able to upload the javascript and the skin stylesheets to a directory I'll call /styles off the current path. I have to make two changes in the head section: 1) declare the path to the skin's stylesheet and 2) install the script filepointer. Then, I need to insert a sidebar section with the code and links for selecting the desired skin. Also, if I get a lot of skins, maybe I should put them in a dropdown box instead of a list. Give me some feedback on how you want to implement the selection process.

Sigh....

All I can figure is it's one of those "earn millions without ever leaving your home" schemes...I've been noticing that the latest trend in comment spam is for sombody to use a real-sounding name and a real-sounding comment, but the url they leave is some commercial site. I've been adding the urls to our blacklist, but that still leaves the comments in blogs other than mine own...

Stoopid Google....

Help

I know that usually this particular blog is a clearing house for various Munvianans bits and pieces like welcoming newcomers, helping on templates and the like. And I know everyone gets asked from time to time where does the .mu.nu bit come from? And I even know that the .nu bit comes from a little island called Niue, which sold their rights to the domain to a company called NuNames. It meant a tiny island in the Pacific found a way to supplement their incomes a little.

Little Niue got smashed yesterday by a massive cyclone. You can read about it here. Now I don't often preach or anything, but given the connection between Munu and this little island, I'd like to suggest some kind of Munuvian effort to help our cousins on this island. There doesn't seem to be any appeals setup yet, but the Australia Red Cross has some information and the NZ Red Cross are setting something up.

Just letting y'all know.

UPDATE: Pixy found the link for the donations to NZ Red Cross for this.

"Please Allow Me

to introduce myself.

I'm a man of wealth and taste."

O.K. so taste is purely subjective and the only wealth I possess is a wealth of opinion and imagination.

My name is Stephen Macklin and I write a blog called Hold The Mayo currently residing @ Blogspot. At the invitation of Rocket Jones, my blog will be moving to mu.nu.

In the process of making the decision to become a Munuvian, I visited most if not all of your sites. If I left a comment it was probably using StMack It was the quality of most of what I saw and read that sealed the deal. I hope my blog will measure up.

It will probably take me some time to get the mu.nu site set up to my satisfaction. I understand design well - which is good since that's how I feed my family and pay the mortgage. But 99.9% of my design work is stuff that gets printed on paper, so tweaking the template will require some trial and much error.

In the mean time I will continue to post to the blogspot site and I invite you all to stop by.

UPDATE: Tweaking the template went better than expected. I have stopped posting new stuff to the blogspot site.

Look what I found

Pixy's busy with Minx. It all sounds impressive to me. Anyways, so there I am, gazing at the latest MuNu entries, and, well, look what I found. Methinks Pixy's been busier than we thought.

Cluetrain!

Ambient Irony has been somewhat self-absorbed of late, not doing much linking or commentry on other blogs, not even my fellow Munuvians. But Steven Den Beste's latest (or second latest) post got me thinking, and now I've got a Clueless-a-lanche!

Yay! Look, ma, readers! Well, Sitemeter hits, anyway.

Update: How's this for a comment:

To quote my good friend and political idol, Darth Vader:

Impressive...

Posted by Bill Whittle at January 7, 2004 03:19 PM

Yes, that Bill Whittle. Um, he of the empty blog...

Minx

I've started up a Minx support weblog at minx.mu.nu. Soon it will even have content! And some day, there will be a Minx to support!

Blogspot Archives

No, really!

CD and Simon are done. Who's next?

Java Problems

OK, I still can't upload things from this pc, nor can I rebuild my site or get comments sections on non-Mu.Nu blogs nor my Guest Map working.

It would appear that I have a Java problem on my "re-loved" laptop that I bought.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? It's driving me crazy.

Uploading Problems

Is anyone having problems uploading files? When I click on the "upload file" tab on the moveable type menu, it does not work. All the other buttons work.

The blog world will be deprived of my cute new haircut unless I can get this working.